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Submission of a paper implies that it reports original unpublished work, that it has not been accepted and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All authors must have read and approved the manuscript.

1. Types of articles
2. Submission of manuscripts
3. Peer review process
4. Electronic-only material
5. Open Access Option
6. Proofs and reprints
7. Copyright
8. Template for Apidologie
8.1. General presentation
8.2. References
8.3. Figures and Tables

The journal Apidologie publishes original articles, review articles, scientific notes, proceedings of scientific meetings, and extensive bibliographies in English. Original and review articles have an abstract in English and a general summary in German.
Submission of a paper implies that it reports original unpublished work, that it has not been accepted and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All authors must have read and approved the manuscript.

A - Original articles: they should be no longer than ten pages as a rule, i.e. about 30 000 characters (spaces excluded), including tables and figures (see template for more information).

B - Review articles: Their length is limited to about 60 000 characters, spaces excluded. See template for more information but the usual division into ’materials and methods, results and discussion’ may be replaced by a more adapted structure.

C - Proceedings of scientific meetings: Summaries of communications are limited to 1 700 characters, spaces excluded. They have no chapters, bibliographic references, tables nor acknowledgments and are published by prior arrangement with the Editorial Board.

D - Scientific notes: Apidologie publishes brief notes to report information and observation of preliminary nature 1) for which additional data cannot be easily obtained or 2) which have an exceptional scientific interest. The length of such notes will be strictly restricted to two pages (about 5 500 characters, spaces excluded) and publication will depend on the availability of space in the journal and general interest to readers of Apidologie. This form is intended to augment scientific communication and is by no means for articles that are not of sufficient rigor to be published as full papers. All submissions must include ’scientific note’ in the title. Only the title is translated into French and German.

E- Extensive bibliographies: A twopage synopsis or introduction is published in the printed version, the bibliography itself being available online only. Before preparation and submission of such bibliographies, authors are advised to contact the Editorial office. References are published in HTML format in addition to PDF format.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Manuscript Management System (MMS) at: https://mms-inra.edpsciences.org/is/apido/. Please follow the instructions displayed on the screen after accessing the website. To register your submission, you need to enter your author identifier (ID). This is a unique and confidential number that is attributed to you upon your first submission to Apidologie. If you publish regularly with us, please note your author ID for future reference.

Manuscripts should comply with the Instructions and be submitted as a unique PDF file containing text, references, tables and figures (RTF or Word files can be also accepted if need be). The file should be labelled with the corresponding author’s name, for example: Martin- 2007-apido.pdf. The manuscript should be typed in Times (12) double-spaced with margins of 3 cm at top, bottom and sides for editor’s markings. Lines and pages should be numbered. Use italics only for latin names of organisms The Editorial board requests that authors whose native language is not English have their manuscripts checked by an English-speaking colleague prior to submission. The Editorial Board maintains the option of returning, before evaluation, manuscripts which do not meet the instructions and/or acceptable standards of English.

Upon acceptance, the format required for text and tables is RTF or Word and for figures TIFF or EPS. Upload it through MMS at https://mms-inra.edpsciences.org/is/apido/.

All manuscripts are examined initially by Apidologie scientific editors for their appropriateness to the journal. Those which do not match the scope of Apidologie or are of insufficient general interest are sent back promptly to their authors. Other manuscripts are sent to a minimum of two experts chosen by the handling editor. Reviewers are invited to present their comments and/or suggestions within 4 weeks after reception of the manuscript. Reviewers’ comments are sent to the authors without their names to remain anonymous. Final acceptance is a decision of the handling editor and is based on the reviewers’ reports and the editorial board advice.

In case of revision, the authors must indicate in which ways the comments and suggestions were taken into account or why they were not taken into account. The corrected version should be returned to the handling editor within 3 months after the decision has been made. After this delay, it will be considered as a new manuscript. Depending on the handling editor’s decision, revised manuscripts may be sent out to reviewers a second time.

Electronic-only material is designed to provide supplementary information that is either too voluminous for printing or that is designed specifically for the Web, such as illustration in colour. Electronic-only material may include but is not restricted to: (Large) tables; Appendices; Programmes; Images; Videos. This option should be used whenever possible to reduce the length of the printed papers. Electronic-only material must be submitted together with the body of the manuscript for evaluation. For more information on the submission of this material (file requirements, etc.), please contact the production office at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

To favour a broad and easy access to all published scientific information, Apidologie and its publisher EDP Sciences uses a service called Open Access Option (OAO). It offers the possibility for authors to make their papers freely available to all interested readers (subscribers or non subscribers) as soon as the articles are published online. Otherwise, the policy of the journal is to have all articles made freely accessible 18 months after the print date. Authors who are interested in OAO should fill out the form that is sent with the proofs and return it with the corrected proofs. Authors (or their institution) should make a contribution, Price (550 € in 2008) covers only a fraction of the editing costs.

Proofs will be sent by electronic mail to the author for correspondence indicated on the title page. They should be carefully corrected and returned to the publisher within 48 h of reception. If this period is exceeded, the galleys will be proofed only by the editorial staff of the publishing house and printed without the authors’ corrections. Should substantial changes in the original manuscript be requested (other than typographical errors), they will be made at the author’s expense. The PDF file is provided free of charge to the corresponding author. An order form for reprints – and, if required, for the publication of colour figures – will accompany the proofs.

The author returns the signed transfer of copyright and publishing agreement form with the corrected proofs.. Authors are allowed to make their articles available on personal sites, or their institution’s website and Open Archive Initiative sites, provided the source of the published article is cited and the ownership of the copyright clearly mentioned. These sites must be non-profit sites. Reprint and postprint may be used (with the publisher’s PDF). Authors are requested to create a link to the published article in the publisher’s internet service. The link must be accompanied by the following text “The original publication is available at http://www.apidologie.org/.” Requests for reproduction should be sent to the publisher:

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8.1. General presentation

The manuscript should be typed in Times 12 double-spaced with margins of at least 3 cm at the top, bottom and sides for editor’s markings. Lines and pages should be numbered.

Title
Authors: Forenames (in full) and SURNAMES of each author*

Address of all authors
Email of all authors

*Corresponding author: this author being identified by an asterisk: detailed postal address, phone and fax numbers.
Short Title: no more than 45 characters, including spaces.

The manuscript should be arranged as follows: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, general summary (to be translated into German), references, figure captions, tables, figures. Tables and figures, with their captions, should not appear in the text, but be placed together on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript. Abbreviations should be punctuated. Uppercase letters should be accentued, small capital should not be used.

Abstract

The abstract (no more than 850 characters, spaces excluded) should be in a form suitable for abstracting services. It should contain no paragraphs, footnotes, references, crossreferences to figures and tables and undefined abbreviations.

Keywords

Up to five keywords should be supplied, they may be taken from the title, abstract or text. The plural form and uppercase letters should be avoided. Keywords should be written in bold lowercase letters, separated by slashes.

1. Introduction

Section headings should be numbered following the international numbering system (1., 1.1., 1.1.1., etc.).

1. Materials and Methods
2. Results
3. Discussion

This summary (10% of the length of the article, excluding abstract and references, but not to exceed 2500 characters, spaces excluded) is intended for a general audience and should be written in non-technical language. It should mention the aim of the study, place it in the scientific context, provide brief information about methods and sufficient information on results (with reference to the tables and figures), and lastly the discussion and conclusion. It should be written in English and will be translated into German by the editorial office.

In the text, refer to author(s) name(s) and year of publication. When there are more than two authors, give the first author’s name followed by et al. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. Ex.: (Smith, 1979, 1980; Anderson and Smith, 1982a; Anderson et al., 1985).
In the reference list, the references should appear in alphabetical order. If there is more than one author, the order is as follows: publications of a single author in chronological order; publications of the same author with one co-author in chronological order; publications of the author with more than one co-author in chronological order.
Proceedings of articles submitted for publication, unpublished data, personal communications should not appear in the reference list but should be cited in the text as “unpubl. data”. All entries in the reference list must correspond to references in the text and vice versa.
The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the rules of Biosciences Information Service (Biosis) or those of the Liste d’abréviations de mots des titres de publications en série (conforming to ISO 4, Centre international de ISSN, Paris). Words for which no abbreviation is given should be written in full.Examples are given below of the layout and punctuation to be used in the references:

Article:

Anderson D.L., Trueman J.W.H. (2000) Varroa jacobsoni (Acari: Varroidae) is more than one species, Exp. Appl. Acarol. 24, 165–189.

Book:

Ruttner F. (1988) Biogeography and taxonomy of honeybees, Springer Verlag, Berlin. Chapter in a book: Southwick E.E. (1993) Biology and social physiology of the honey bee, in: Graham J.M. (Ed.), The hive and the honey bee, Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, Illinois, pp. 171–196.

Electronic material:

Bogdanov S. (1999) Water content: comparison of refractometric methods with the Karl Fisher method, Annu. Meet. Int. Honey Comm. Dijon, [online] http://www.apis.admin. ch/host/honey/minutes.htm (accessed on 16 August 2004). For all other kinds of documents, please contact the managing editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Illustrations should be numbered in Arabic numerals for figures and Roman numerals for tables, and should be referred to in the text by their number: Fig. 1, Tab. I. Lettering (symbols, numbers, etc., preferably in Arial font,) should not differ from figure to figure and should be of sufficient size to remain legible after reduction (letters 1–2 mm high after reduction to either one (6.5 cm) or two column (13.5 cm) format). Figures should be presented in the form of drawings on drawing or tracing paper or as sharp glossy prints. Half-tones should contain good contrast and should be originals (i.e. not already reproduced); line drawings should have a white background. Photographs should be presented in the form of plates to be reproduced without reduction (maximum size 13.5 x 20 cm). The lettering should not be placed any closer to the edges than 1 cm. The figure captions should be explicit so that the illustrations are comprehensible without reference to the text.

In the paper version of the journal, figures are in black and white (for colour, authors should make a contribution, prices on request), but they appear in colour in the electronic version. Tables should not exceed 84 characters per line (140 if in landscape format). The title of each table should be written above the corresponding table. Figures and tables published elsewhere cannot be accepted without the prior consent of the publisher and the author(s).